:From the late 1950s and early 1960s, mainframe digital computers were becoming commonplace within large organisations and universities, and increasingly these would be equipped with graphic plotting and graphics screen devices. Consequently, a new field of experimentation began to open up.
===The first computer-drawn film===
In 1960, a 49-second vector animation of a car traveling down a planned highway was created at the Swedish [[Royal Institute of Technology]] on the [[BESK]] computer. The consulting firm Nordisk ADB, which was a provider of software for the Royal Swedish Road and Water Construction Agency realized that they had all the coordinates to be able to draw perspective from the driver's seat for a motorway from Stockholm towards Nacka. In front of a specially designed digital oscilloscope with a resolution of about 1 megapixel a 35 mm camera with an extended magazine was mounted on a specially made stand. The camera was automatically controlled by the computer, which sent a signal to the camera when a new image was fed on the oscilloscope. It took an image every twenty meters (yards) of the virtual path. The result of this was a fictional journey on the virtual highway at a speed of 110 km/h (70 mph). The short animation was broadcast on November 9, 1961, at primetime in the national television newscast Aktuellt.<ref name="tekniskamuseet">{{cite web |url= https://www.tekniskamuseet.se/lar-dig-mer/kommunikation-och-media/datorhistoriska-nedslag/svensk-datorhistoria-1960-talet/ |title= Svensk datorhistoria – 1960-talet |last= Du Rietz |first= Peter |date= December 20, 2016 |website= Tekniska museet |access-date= January 17, 2017 |quote= In front of the oscilloscope mounted a 35 mm camera with extended magazine on a custom-made stand. The camera was controlled automatically by computer, which sent a signal to the camera when a new image has been fed on the oscilloscope. In the Nordic ADB, who counted a lot and release data stewed, they had realized that they had all the coordinates to draw perspective from the driver's seat. They took as an example of this in the future how the then nyprojekterade motorway towards Nacka, outside Stockholm, would look like. With the camera in front of the oscilloscope, they could snap a picture every twenty meters of the virtual road. The result was a fictitious trip in the virtual highway at a speed of 110 km/h. The film was transferred to 16 mm format and made in 100 copies. Technical Museum is the only known surviving copy of the film in the collections. On the film roll box says that it is the first computer-drawn film in the world. There is little other evidence that this is actually true, and that this is the world's first computer animation. The film aired on November 9, 1961 at primetime in the national television newscast Aktuellt. |language= sv |trans-title= Swedish computer history – 1960s |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170103001844/https://www.tekniskamuseet.se/lar-dig-mer/kommunikation-och-media/datorhistoriska-nedslag/svensk-datorhistoria-1960-talet/ |archive-date= January 3, 2017 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{YouTube|XhNT501DsJI|"Världens äldsta datoranimation?"}}</ref>
